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SUMMARY:WHAT NOW? CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY AFTER PARIS  - Speaker to be c
 onfirmed
DTSTART:20160122T090000Z
DTEND:20160122T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:A MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE HOSTED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF CAM
 BRIDGE \n \nCentre for Environment\, Energy & Natural Resource Governance 
 (C-EENRG)\nEnergy Policy Research Group (EPRG) – Judge Business School\n
 Department of Politics and International Studies and Centre for Rising Pow
 ers\nIn association with the Climate Policy Journal\n \nSelwyn College\, F
 riday\, 22nd January 2016\, 9:00 – 18:00\n \nThe 2015 Paris Climate Chan
 ge Summit marked a turning point in international efforts to combat climat
 e change.  This multidisciplinary conference will bring together a wide ra
 nge of experts to discuss the outcome of the Paris negotiations and their 
 implications\, focused on four main themes.\n \nConfirmed speakers include
 : Richard Kinley (UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary)\, Sir David King (Spe
 cial Representative to the UK Foreign Secretary)\, Emily Shuckburgh (Briti
 sh Antarctic Survey)\, Niklas Höhne (New Climate Institute)\, Farhana Yam
 in (UCL)\, Simon Sharpe (UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office)\, Asad Rehman
  (Friends of the Earth)\, Michael Grubb (UCL)\, Kun-Chin Lin (Cambridge)\,
  Michael Mehling (MIT)\, Jill Duggan (Carbon Policy Associates)\, Jim Wats
 on (UK Energy Research Centre)\, Paul Ekins (UCL)\, James Leaton (Carbon T
 racker)\, Ben Caldecott (Oxford)\, Ted Shepherd (Reading)\, Jean-Francois 
 Mercure (Cambridge)\, Anju Sharma (ECBI\, IIED)\, Mohammed Nasr (Egypt)\, 
 Myles Allen (Oxford).\n \n1. Are we any closer to avoiding dangerous clima
 te change? An assessment of the Paris Agreement\nUnder the Paris Agreement
 \, governments will aim to limit global temperature increase to “well be
 low” 2 degrees.  And yet the national plans (NDCs) they have submitted a
 re neither legally binding\, nor sufficient to meet this collective goal. 
  Will we really avoid dangerous climate change thanks to the Paris Agreeme
 nt\, or were the compromises needed to forge a global agreement simply too
  great?  \n \n2. Climate geopolitics and governance: who has the power to 
 deliver the low-carbon transition? \nThe geopolitics of climate change are
  shifting\, with the large emerging emitters\, notably China\, far more po
 sitive in their approach.  The US is also back on board. But national gove
 rnments alone cannot shift the world’s economy onto a low-carbon path.  
 Could the most committed governments join together in a ‘club of ambitio
 n\,’ perhaps with other actors\, such as cities and businesses?   \n \n3
 . The investment transition: matching the rhetoric with money \nThere rema
 ins a disturbing disjuncture between the rhetoric of global commitment to 
 a maximum 2 degree temperature rise\, and the direction of global financia
 l flows\, notably in the energy sector.  One of the aims of the Paris Agre
 ement is “making finance flows consistent” with a low carbon pathway. 
  How could this happen?  \n \n4. Who should pay for the impacts? Adaptatio
 n and beyond\nThe world is already committed to a certain amount of climat
 e change\, with inevitable impacts\, notably on the most vulnerable.  Give
 n the stakes involved\, it is not surprising that the issue of “loss and
  damage” was one of the key sticking points in Paris. This final panel w
 ill address current thinking on paying for the impacts of climate change\,
  and the allocation of responsibility. \n \nRegistration is free and throu
 gh Eventbrite\, at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/post-paris-cop-21-confer
 ence-tickets-19317782006.  Places are strictly limited and will be allocat
 ed on a first come\, first served basis\, so early registration is advised
 .  For further information\, contact Dr Emma Lees at el348@cam.ac.uk.\n
LOCATION:Selwyn College
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